AN: I'm exhausted.
Seven
By: anybodihearme
Originally Uploaded: Monday, December 31, 2018
7:10 AM.
"Dad, I need you to sign my permission slip for today."
"…okay…"
"Dad!"
"…yes…?"
"The permission slip!"
Kevin rolled his head over the pillow and opened one eye, squinting at Alice. Turning his head in the opposite direction, Alice stretched out her small arms and shook Kevin with such vigor that the middle-aged man groaned. "Come on, dad! I'm going to be late for school!"
"Okay, okay, okay!" Kevin groaned, stretching out one of his arms for the pen he knew Alice was holding. Without even looking, Kevin stretched his hand across the bed at the same time the young girl slipped the piece of paper under his palm. With a barely-there signature, the raven-haired girl was satisfied enough to give Kevin a quick kiss on the cheek and run out of the room.
7:16 AM.
Rolling his eyes, Kevin pulled the covers closer to him and slowly began to drift back off to sleep.
"Dad!" Caroline screamed, running into the master bedroom. "I have a track meet today and Owen said that you said that I have to pick him up after school!" Kevin sunk deeper into the bed despite the angry emerald eyes staring down at him. "Dad!"
"Care…" Kevin groaned, looking up at his oldest.
"I can't skip my meet today! You know I am the leg and how much this means to me!" Kevin didn't respond and this only made the teen fluster. "Dad!" She shook him harder.
"I'm sorry but I can't pick your brother up. We've talked about this." Kevin closed his eyes.
"What about Alice?" Caroline crossed her arms and flipped her long red hair over her shoulder.
"You want me to send an eight-year-old to pick up a seven-year-old?" Kevin's husky voice hung in the air and Caroline glared down at her father, knowing he was immune to her anger.
"What about tutoring? We all know he sucks at math. Can't he stay behind at school with Alice until she gets picked up?"
"I guess…" Kevin rolled back over, waving her off. Satisfied, Caroline mumbled under her breath and stormed out the bedroom in search of her gym bag.
7:24 AM.
"Dad?" Kevin groaned and opened both his eyes.
"Yes, Owen?" He asked, breathing deeply.
"Alice is going on a field trip today so no one made lunch for me. I'm going to starve."
"You are not going to starve," Kevin groaned. Leaning over the side of the bed, the redhead reached down for his pants and pulled out his wallet. Handing his youngest five dollars, Kevin yawned and laid back down.
7:31 AM.
"Dad!" Ariana screamed, running into the room like a bat out of hell. "He is ruining my life!"
"Who's ruining your life this time?"
"He knows that I had plans tonight to go to the movies with George and now he said I can't go! This is so unfair!" She shrieked, shaking Kevin with both her hands. "I did everything he asked me to do and because I missed curfew by two minutes, I can't go? This is bullshit and he knows it!" Her pink fingernails dug into Kevin's arms making him growl.
"Language, young lady." Kevin glared up at his middle child. Her blue eyes glared down at him with such anger that for a split second, Kevin believed she might claw his eyes out.
"It's not fair!"
"George is lame anyway," Kevin rolled back over which did nothing but anger the adolescent even more.
"Dad!"
"Ari!" With a stump of her foot, Ariana turned on heels and left the room, slamming the door behind her.
7:45 AM.
"Dad!"
"Dad!"
"Dad!"
"Dad!"
The door to the master suite flung up and all four of his Kevin's children rushed in, speaking over one another, growing in volume. Groaning, Kevin sat up and glared at all four of them, silencing them.
"Go. Ask. Your. Father."
"You are our father," Ariana and Caroline both said at the same time with a hint of sarcasm in their voices.
"Your other father!" Kevin groaned, running his hands through his hair. "Eddward!" He screamed.
Silence.
"He left for work at seven," Owen said, accidentally dumping his backpack out on the floor.
Groaning, Kevin fell back onto the bed as each and every one of them started shouting and complaining about only God knows what.
7:55 AM.